Making Interdisciplinary Performance

Gianna Bouchard is Professor of Contemporary Performance at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her interdisciplinary research explores the interface between medicine and performance. She is the author of Performing Specimens: Biomedical Display in Contemporary Performance (Methuen Drama, 2020).Adam J. Ledger is Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Birmingham, UK. He has published widely on performance practices, including The Director and Directing: Craft, Process and Aesthetic in Contemporary Theatre and on Eugenio Barba for the Great European Stage Directors series (Methuen Drama, 2018).

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction, Gianna Bouchard and Adam J. Ledger (University of Birmingham, UK)Part One: Journeys and Permeating1. Lessons Learned in Other People’s Classrooms Alexander Kelly (Leeds School of Arts & Third Angel, UK)2. What is the Work For?: Complexities, Collaboration and Commodification in Performance-making: Adam J. Ledger (University of Birmingham, UK)3. Crossing the Bridge: From Artist to Psychologist, Hannah Newman (University of Surrey, UK)Part Two: Performance and Other Spaces4. Performance in the Restaurant: Fine Dining and the Confluence of Disciplinary Approaches and Practices, Paul Geary (University of East Anglia, UK)5. The Productive Ward: Interdisciplinary Collaboration with/in the Disciplined Space, Alex Mermikides (King’s College London, UK)6. Notes from the In Between, Suzy Willson (Clod Ensemble, UK)7. Chodzenie-Siberia: Undisciplined Encounters on the High Street, Mehrdad Seyf (Public Works / 30 Bird, UK)Part Three: Performance and Pedagogies8. Le Laboratoire d’Etude du Mouvement (LEM) – A Space for Interdisciplinarity, Mark Evans (Coventry University, UK), Aurelian Koch (Freelance Theatre Designer, Teacher and Performer) and Amy Russell (Founder and Director of Embodied Poetics)9. Interdisciplinarity at the Bottom of the World: Designing New Performance-led Curriculum, Kathleen Williams and Meg Keating (University of Tasmania)10. Interdisciplinary Performance Pedagogy: Undoing Mastery in the Studio, Gianna Bouchard (University of Birmingham, UK)11. ‘When the Students Entered the Stage, they were actors’: Students, Educators, Artists and Spectators as Ensemble, Tatiana Chemi & Kristian Firing (Aalborg University, Denmark) Index

Making Interdisciplinary Performance brings together fascinating contributions from practitioners, scholars and educators (and those who combine these in various ways) who explore the mess, playfulness and complexity of making work across conventional boundaries. It will be of value to those who want a pragmatic and reflective account of both methods and understandings of interdisciplinarity.